Watching This Cummins Blow Everything Above The Crankshaft Off The Engine Is Amazing
Feb 17, 2018Chad ReynoldsXL Videos
When I say everything above the crankshaft, I’m not kidding. The crank and rods are still sitting there spinning after the rest of the engine is thrown forward in the dyno cell. One of the rods...
Rough Start: A Long-Roof Oldsmobile That Deserves To Be Built Into Something Great
Feb 16, 2018Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find
For the second time this week, a Colonnade A-body has crossed my path and has given me pause for thought. The sidepipe-equipped Monte Carlo went over like a wet fart in a church pew, it seems, so...
Unhinged: Yelling “I Can’t Stop!” Won’t Slow The Runaway Car Down, You Genius.
Feb 16, 2018Bryan McTaggartUnhinged
Remember all of the drama that unfolded with the Toyota “unintended acceleration” controversy? It seemed that all of a sudden, Toyota vehicles were killing people left and right via...
Friday Excuse To Go Home Early And Drink: Rest In Peace, Ford Focus RS
Feb 16, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, FORD
(Image: Ford Motor Company) All good things eventually have to come to an end, and sadly, the pocket rocket that is the Ford Focus RS is not long for this world. April 6th, 2018 will be the last...
Soaking Behemoth – The Mack Super Pumper Was A Locomotive Engined Fire Fighter That Could Extinguish Hell Itself (And Often Did)
Feb 16, 2018Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Big Truck Feature, XL Truck Feature
(Lead image: Philip Goldstein) – In the early 1960s the New York City Fire Department was facing a host of problems. The world around them was growing ever taller, ever more compact, and ever...
You Know What You Need? A 500 Horsepower, Four-Door, Four-Wheel Drive Manual-Trans Sedan! This Ford Sierra RS Cosworth 4×4 Is One Bad Mother!
Feb 16, 2018Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find
If you read the new-car mags or blogs, you’ll see a theme that’s been cropping up a lot lately: the death of the mid-sized sedan. For decades, mid-size four-doors were the way to go for a...
Insane Video: Watch A Big Rig Suffer A Tire Explosion In Russia
Feb 16, 2018Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
(By Greg Rourke) – Truck tires are nothing to mess with. We’ve reviewed the aftermath of truck tires exploding previously on these pages. When handled properly they are inflated inside a...
BangShift Project Files: A 1968 Chevrolet Camaro That’s Destined For Drag Week
Feb 16, 2018Bryan McTaggart1320 Project Cars, BangShift 1320, CHEVY, Project Cars
Halfway through February, and we’re already starting to see the crop of Drag Week 2018 hopefuls getting their rears in gear and getting their projects sorted so that they can make the call when...
So Tesla Sent A Car To Space…That’s Nice. Škoda Actually Sent A Superb To Mars!
Feb 16, 2018Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, Videos
Sometimes you have to strike while the iron is hot. Or, in this case, as soon as the 2008 Tesla Roadster is nothing more than a dot in the night sky. Look, make no mistake that what SpaceX did with...
2018 NHRA Winternationals Photo Coverage: More Stock and Super Stock Wheelie Action To Enjoy
Feb 15, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, Drag Races, Gallery
(Photos by Wes Allison) – It is kind of ironic that one of the biggest NHRA events of the year is followed by the biggest small tire drag race in the world with Lights Out 9. Why is it ironic?...
Stockholm Syndrome: The Stockholm Open-Winning Opel Ascona Went Full Bore At Drag Week
Feb 15, 2018Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, RACING & ACTION, Videos
As 1320Video goes through their Drag Week 2017 footage, we have to make note of the Opel Ascona that Magnus Frost is infamous for. This is a car that is a legitimate, purpose-built street racer....
Can’t Be Any More Beat Than An Ex-Military Truck: Who Wants This 1991 HMMWV Desert Race Truck?
Feb 15, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, Craigslist Find, XL Online Find
My thoughts on the HMMWV are pretty well cemented: they are killer off-roaders that are equipped with all of the luxury amenities of a gulag and have all the stump-pulling power of an old work mule...
The Joys Of The $600 Beater: Watch As This Big-Block Cordoba Gets A New Lease On Life!
Feb 15, 2018Bryan McTaggartMISC, MOPAR, Project Cars, Videos
There is a generational gap between accepted cars in mainstream gearhead terms. Between roughly 1974 and the late 1990s, there is a pretty large swath of cars that are ignored for one reason or...
Yee-Haw! Watch Just How Quickly The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon Can Hit VMAX!
Feb 15, 2018Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, RACING & ACTION, Videos
To just bluntly state that the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is fast is like saying the sky is blue: it’s going to elicit a lot of eye-rolling and a general vibe of “thanks, Captain...
